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New Zealand
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30 W x 20 H x 1.5 D in
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After years of abstaining from motorsport, Ford decided to go into competition, and hit the ground running by buying Ferrari in 1963. When the deal failed, they launched their own G.T. program culminating in the winning of the Le Mans 24 hours in 1966 with the GT Mark 2, and in '67 with the Mark 4. With their goal acheived they withdrew from GT racing, leaving privateers to run the older GT40's. Top privateer John Wyer, generously sponsored by Gulf oil would win Le Mans in 1968 with Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi driving chassis number 1075. The following year Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver would drive the same car to win. It remains the only car to win the race more than once. The '69 win came under controversial circumstances - Jacky Ickx protesting the traditional 'Le Mans start' by slowly walking across the track and taking his time to make sure his belts were fastened correctly. Many drivers were racing away before they were harnessed in. Ickx's criticism was vindicated before even the first lap was over, as John Wolfe in his new Porsche 917 - known for their instability - crashed and was killed, having not buckled himself in properly. Ickx was by far last away, but after 24 hours of racing and a titanic struggle with the Porsche 908 of Hans Hermann and Gerard Larrousse, chassis 1075 won Le Mans again by just a few seconds in the closest non-staged finish.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
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Size:30 W x 20 H x 1.5 D in
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Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to check out my artwork, and learn a little bit about me. I was born in 1982, in Invercarcargill, the deep south of New Zealand. I grew up surrounded by motorsport, the family home just a couple of minutes' drive to Teretonga - the local race circuit, with speedway, Go - Kart and motorcross tracks all within a stones' throw. My father raced Go - Karts in his early years, before taking up Midget car racing at speedway, and there was usually motorsport on the tv at the weekends when I wasn't watching it in the flesh. I started painting with water paints when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Simple stick figures soon evolved to more complex pictures using arcrylics, as I started to experiment with abstract art as well as keeping my hand in with painting racing cars. In 1999 I started racing Go-Karts, and the lack of available time, as well as other interests meant that only a few artworks were completed between '99 and 2006. A couple of years after leaving school I started studying to become an engineer, becoming qualified in 2006. It was after this, that I was gifted some un-needed art supplies, re-igniting my creative flame The first few works I created in this period were all abstract, as I experimented with different shapes and colours. One of them being "Losing time". I put it on display in a Christchurch art gallery, where it was quickly snapped up by a collector, thus fuelling my passion. After that success, I decided to be selfish and reward myself by getting back into motorsport art. I painted "Master McLaren" and showed a few people, and had such an encouraging response, I decided to do more. Since then on the majority of my work has been motorsport based.
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